Pablo Picasso - Carnet erotici - 2009

Pablo Picasso – Erotic Notebooks (Carnet erotici) is an art book / illustrated catalog of high editorial quality, focused on the themes of eroticism, nudes, and figure studies by the master. Italian edition by L’Ippocampo (Milan) based on the Prestel edition, with color and black-and-white reproductions and a complete index where each image is documented with title, year, technique, dimensions, and provenance (museums and private collections).

A copy in like-new condition, ideal for the Picasso collector, an art library, researchers, and lovers of modern drawing.

Specimen details
• Author: Pablo Picasso
• Cover title: Carnet erotici
• Title in Spanish (for the catalog): Erotic notebooks
• Editorial: L’Ippocampo (Milan) – Italian edition (2009 L’Ippocampo; editorial base 2008 Prestel Verlag)
• Translation: from German, Alessandra Iadicicco
• Binding: hardcover with a red cloth spine and illustrated covers
• Condition: like new (very clean, with no obvious signs of wear)

Note: this is a book/catalog with reproductions (it does not contain any original works).

Contents: included works (31 titles in Spanish)
1. Two Women in Bed (1905)
2. The Kiss (1904)
3. Self-portrait with a nude (1902)
4. Couple in an embrace (1901)
5. Reclining Nude (1901)
6. Two Figures with a Cat (1902–1903)
7. Nude in bed, facing the viewer (1902–1903)
8. The Lovers (1904)
9. Ángel Fernández de Soto with a Woman (1902–1903)
10. Erotic Scene (1902)
11. The embrace, dedicated to Guillaume Apollinaire (1905)
12. Life (1903)
13. Erotic Scene (1902)
Nude of a Woman (1919–1920)
15. Nude from the back (1922)
16. Nude lying on a bed (1920)
17. Nude (1925)
18. Male nude looking at a sleeping woman (1922)
The Rape (1920)
Woman raped by the Minotaur (1933)
21. The Artist and the Model (1933)
22. Dora and the Minotaur (1936)
23. Nude reclining in profile (1936)
24. Adora (1938)
25. The Odalisque
Woman Who Looks at a Sleeping Man (1942)
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1967)
28. Man and Woman (1971)
29. Seated nude and male bust with hat (1972)
30. Mirrina and Cinesia, illustration for “Lysistrata” (1934)
31. Woman Reclining (1969)

Why it deserves high bids

A very attractive edition for the art book market: it combines a strong selection of Picasso (1901–1972) with documentation and provenance, and in an exceptional state of preservation. Perfect as a reference book and a collectible piece.